But even then the Christians didn't establish a proper Christian state. in many ways it was just a Christian king. But it's hard to compare modern states to anything pre- treaty of Westphalia.
The Byzantine empire was more of a Christian state than Jerusalem ever was, and I'm ignoring the whole "eastern Roman empire" part.
If you take orders from the Holy see your not exactly a sovereign state. It's like saying that the Utah territory was a Mormon state
The Kingdom of Jerusalem wasn't exactly self sufficient and still had to answer to Rome. What I meant was a modern sovereign state. I hope we can have a state in the middle east that is for the Christians what Israel is for the Jews. Not just religiously Christian but culturally Christian too. I imagine if they have good a relationship with Israel (which I have no reason to think otherwise would happen) visiting the holy sites under Israeli control won't be an issue. Again I think we should let the Christians take Gaza or southern Lebanon. Fuck if the Jews could basically create Israel with private funding and land purchases the Christians can definitely do that in southern Lebanon.
